I've noticed that some of the posters who seem least concened about "collateral damage" if it involves death to people who live in Afghanistan or Iraq for instance are still concerned about racist profiling aginst Arab looking people in the US due to the NYC bombing, particularly if they are citizens. Now I understand that their arelegal distincitons between citizens and non-citizens ( a foreign visitor shouldn't have the right to borow a book from the public library) but under what moral grounds do we treat these human beings so different? For me nationalism is no more morally justified than racism when you are talking about life and deah issues.. In fact they're often times hard to distiguish.
LOL Glynch do you have your gas mask yet so that when that crop duster full of chemical weapons flies over your house you will be okay to continue this discussion of how morally we should treat those who would try to murder us all.
Hey glynch, be sure to debate this with the terrorist when they're trying to <b>blow</b> you up, <b>crash</b> a plane into your work place, or trying to <b>poison</b> you.
I don't want the United States to just go in and start killing everybody, but it seems like the Taliban is doing a good job of that himself. It's easy to say that the United States is wrong for possibly killing civilians, and I definitely don't want that to happen, but they killed about 7000 people. I know people are saying that that is what terrorist do, and they do it overseas, but this time the U.S. is doing something about it.
glynch, Nationalism is much more morally acceptable unless it's used to discriminate against all people of another country. Even during WWII, there were plenty of Germans and Asians (who looked like Japanese) that lived here. It is wrong to discriminate against them for their heritage and nationality. I don't think we should "hate" an entire country or its population. That's just as wrong as racism. If you were referring to me, I listed several different ways to discriminate against people other than racism, but I also said they were all wrong.
are we referring to nationalism or patriotism? i thought nationalism was a group of people similar in some way or the other (race, religion, culture, etc) wanting to not be ruled by another group... i dunno, i got a 2 on my ap euro hist exam.
